GRASSROOTS

We are a grassroots organization and we teach basic emergency first aid skills free of charge.
The People’s Community Medics (PCM) was founded in the summer of 2011 by Sharena Thomas and Lesley Phillips. As members of the Oscar Grant Committee we learned that the BART police refused to call an ambulance for 20 minutes for fatally wounded Oscar Grant, despite the passionate pleas for medical help from his friends who were detained at the Fruitvale station by the police. That experience as well as our knowledge that 911 calls often do not result in an ambulance arriving in a timely manner to Black, Brown and poor neighborhoods largely inspired us to teach our people basic emergency first aid so that we can help one another until an ambulance arrives.

EACH ONE TEACH ONE

We conduct trainings on sidewalks, in parks, in communities. Because no one should die waiting for an ambulance.
We all can learn to save a life. We are the ones that we've been waiting for.

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THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT.

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Your donations will help us restock medical supplies and provide transportation to our free trainings.